CEO Spotlight

Behind the Scenes in Wireless

How Qualcomm's Steven Mollenkopf keeps the mobile world in motion.

Steve Mollenkopf is well known among his colleagues as a movie enthusiast. And one of his favorite films, The Usual Suspects, says much about the intensely private Qualcomm CEO. In a conference room at Qualcomm's offices near the Pacific Ocean in San Diego's Sorrento Valley, Mollenkopf explains how the film's elusive villain, Keyser Söze, is in some ways symbolic of his company: pervasive, and yet little understood.